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Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Fiction.
Landladies -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Fiction.
Landladies -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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The
adventures
of
John
Carson
in
several
quarters
of the
world
: a
novel
of
Robert
Louis
Stevenson
/ Brian Doyle.
by
Doyle, Brian, 1956 November 6-
St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION DOY
Subjects
Stevenson
,
Robert
Louis
, 1850-1894 -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Fiction.
Landladies -- Fiction.
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250100528 (hc.)
1250100526 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Edition
Description:
229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229).
Summary:
"The young
Robert
Louis
Stevenson
, living in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 19th century while waiting for his beloved’s divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring
novel
about his landlady’s adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the
world
, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped."--From publisher.
Genre:
Adventure fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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